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Closer to the Sun

$195.00
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6” x 6” Wet cyanotype with collage and gold acrylic. Inset into a 7” x 7” x 1.5” hand crafted natural wood frame. Finished with a gloss gel, giving it a beautiful shine like a glass tile. Ready to hang or stand on a table or shelf.

6” x 6” Wet cyanotype with collage and gold acrylic. Inset into a 7” x 7” x 1.5” hand crafted natural wood frame. Finished with a gloss gel, giving it a beautiful shine like a glass tile. Ready to hang or stand on a table or shelf.

Now that I am creating cyanotypes (an early form of photography in which your art develops outside in the sun) I eagerly await the return of the light in the spring and summer. Each night I prepare my papers and in the morning I gather flowers and leaves from my garden and lay them in a pleasing composition. I spray the paper with water, add soap suds and some spices, maybe some colored inks and set them out in the sun, sometimes for a couple of hours, sometimes all day. When at the end of the day, I rinse the papers what is revealed is always new and surprising. Then maybe I touch the art up with some gold paint or gold leaf for that extra special glitter.